You And Your Friends Are Cordially Invited To Attend The 36th Annual Homecoming, Bloomsburg State College FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1963 8 :30 p.m.-The American Hootenanny Festival Centennial Gymnasium - Admission - $2.00 per person. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1963 8 :30 a.m.-Registration - Waller Hall 10:30 a.m.-Open House - New North Hall and Waller Hall 11 :30 a.m.-Cafeteria Luncheon for Alumni and Visitors - $1.00 12 :30 p.m.-Homecoming Parade - forms at Parking Area Centennial Gymnasium 2 :00 p.m.-Football - West Chester State College - Mt. Olympus Admission - Adults $1.25 Children - $ .SO 4 :30 p.m.-Get-Together - Centennial Gymnasium 5 :30 p.m.-Cafeteria Dinner for Alumni and Visitors - $1.50 8 :30 p.m.-Informal Dance - Centennial Gymnasium Admission - $1.00 per person Reservations for ov,ernight accommodations should be made directly with the Magee Hotel, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Tennytown Motel, Berwick Highway, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Hummel's Motel, Route 11, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Riverview Motel, R.D. No. 1, Berwick, Pa.; Berwick Hotel, Market St., Berwick, Pa.; Red Maple Motel, R.D. No. 2, Berwick, Pa.; Stone Castle Motel and Restaurant, R.D. No. 2, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Keller's Motel, R.D. No. 4, Danville, Pa.; Pine Barn Inn and Motel, Danville, Pa.; Reichard's Motel, R.D. No. 4, Danville, Pa. VARIED ACTIVITIES SPARK ANNUAL BSC HOMECOMING With the smell of autumn in the air, beautiful scenery coupled with colorful decorations and a friendly welcome from students, faculty, and townspeople, October 11 will be the kick-off at Bloomsburg State College of what promises to be the most successful Homecoming in the thirty-six years this annual event has been held. The current fad that has been sweeping the nation's college campus, "The American Hootenanny" will start the festivities on a musical note at 8 :30 p.m. in Centennial Gymnasium. The Festival will feature the established favorites, The Greenbriar Boys, Joan Meyers, Dimitri and Daniel, the Tanners, and Logan English. Blue Grass music, banjopickin', spirituals and blues, satire, international favorites, all the traditions of America's great folk music movement will be highlighted at the American Hootenanny Festival. Don't miss it! ! ! On Saturday, following registration, open house, and a cafeteria luncheon, early afternoon activities will be high- lighted by the cleverly decorated floats of the Homecoming Parade. The largest crowd of the day will then congregate at Mt. Olympus to watch the keen rivalry between the Rams of West Chester and the Huskies of Bloomsburg. Old grads and friends will then reminisce in the increasingly popular aftergame get-together which, due to larger and larger crowds, is now held in Centennial Gymnasium. At 5 :30 p.m., the delightful atmosphere of the College Commons will be the setting for a cafe- teria dinner for alumni and visitors. Evening socializing will be climaxed with an informal dance in Centennial Gymnasium at 8 :30 p.m. During the morning, Howard F. Fenstemaker, President of the Alumni Association, will meet with the Board members. All in all, we have the makings for a highly successful BSC Homecoming. Now is the time to start making your plans to attend. 36th ANNUAL HOMECOMING, Bloomsburg State College Saturday, October 12, 1963 11 :30 A.M. Luncheon $1.00 - Reservations ( ) 5 :30 P.M. Dinner $1.50 - Reservations ( ) Please return this Coupon on or before Oct. 8th to Public Relations Dep't. showing No. of Reservations for meals. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO ALUMNI Recently I looked through the file of the pages which I have written for the Alumni Quarterly during the last decade. Most of them were about money - or about new buildings - or about new curriculum offerings, degrees, curriculums - or some about the increase in student fees. The President of the College is an executive and knows the loneliness of administration, for there comes a time of decision, despite all the counsel from associates from above and below ; and it is he who says "Yes" or "No". He can't afford to make too many errors in judgment, whether it be in the selection of new faculty, the kind of expenditures in the budget, or the appropriation requests sent to the legislature, and now the revival of alumni interest. Now I want to talk about the Alumni Association. One time we had one of the largest membership percentage-wise in the then State Teachers Colleges. That is to say, out of a file of 6,000 or 7,000 active addresses, we had about 1,000 to 1,500 members. With the passage of time and until the last year the figure has been about the same, regardless of graduating 300 or 400 students a year. In other words, by merely maintaining the same number of members, we have lost ground. However, with the reorganization of the Alumni Association, the changing of the By-Laws, and the increase in the number of directors, it is hoped that we shall be able t9 contact all graduates on a more frequent basis than once in five years. The College stands ready and has, I believe, demonstrated in the past its willingness to cooperate in every way possible. Many of those in attendance for Class Reunions on Alumni Day presented their Alumni Dues card and had their lunch- eon in the College Commons. These dues-paying Alumni were guests of the College. The Alumni File of some 13,300 (7,530 active addresses) or more students has always been kept by the clerical personnel in the College. It has been of use both to the College and to the Alumni Association. An increasing fraction of time of the Director of Public Relations has been given to the Alumni Association, and he is at the present time the Business Manager for the Alumni Quarterly. Many of the Branches have had their invitations duplicated and the envelopes addressed by the College, upon their request. Faculty and representatives of the College who attended meetings of these=Bra11ehes have in most -ease-gc-. had their expenses paid by either the Community Activities or the College. It is time that these matters be fully disclosed and that all members of the Alumni Association be aware of the encouragement and financial support the College is giving to the Association. These are changing times and the things that were planned thirty years ago need to be reviewed and certain adjustments made to keep pace with the future. It has been evident for many, many years that the number of teachers who are able to attend Alumni Day, held in the latter part of May, has been decreasing. In fact, most of the people in attendance are not teachers. Therefore, Alumni Day needs to be rescheduled in terms of increasing attendance at a time when College Facilities are available. It is now time, and I believe we are about ready, to have a development of the Alumni Association which is comparable to that that we have made in the College. I am sure you will do your part. We need to increase, in fact, we need to double, the pr,esent Alumni membership ; and the best way that you can help Bloomsburg is to ask other Alumni to join our Alumni Association. These are the thoughts of the President of the College BSC Inaugurates New Division of Arts and Scien.:es Bloomsburg State College will inaugurate programs of study in the Arts and Sciences with the beginning of the college year 1963-64. Curriculums in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences will lead to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, although the College doe's not plan to graduate students in the new programs before May 1966. For almost a century, beginning in 1869, the Bloomsburg State College has had as one of its chief objectives the education of teachers and professional personnel for the public schools of the Commonwealth. However, following the change of name of the institution by deleting the word "Teachers", Bloomsburg State College was authorized by an Act of the 1961 General Assembly to add curriculums in the Arts and Sciences leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The new programs of study will be under the direction of Dr. Alden Buker, who joined the faculty this year after a successful tenure as Chairman of the Department of Humanities at Arizona State University at Tempe. Dr. Buker will serve as Director of the Division of Arts and Sciences. Here is one of the two very attractive trophy cases that adorn the walls on either side of the entrance to the Alumni Room in W allei- Hail. These cases, in which are displayed trophies won by the BSC athletic teams, ·plus the college mace, were given as a memorial gift by the Class of 1962. In addition to blending in with the decor of the hallway, they also add a touch of airiness and provide more light in the Alumni Room. Tµe materials were purchased under the direction of Mr. Thomas Gorrey, Superintendfnt of Buildings and Grounds, and all constructive carpentry and electrical work was completed by that department. 24 New Faculty Members Total is Now 131 Twenty-four new faculty members have been appointed to the faculty of Bloomsburg State College, according to Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President. Twenty of the new members represent replacements for faculty members who have retired or resigned, while four are additions reflecting the expanding services being offered by the College. The largest faculty in the Bloomsburg State College history, 129 full-time members supplemented by two members on sabbatical leave, opened the 1963-64 academic year. The new members in each department are as follows : Art, three ; Business Education. two ; Elementary Education, one; English, two; Foreign Languages, one; Geography, one; Health and Physical Education. two ; Mathematics, two; Music, two; Science, two; Social Studies, three; Speech, three. The professional preparation of the new faculty members represents an enormous background of experience. They have studied at or received degrees from thirty-three colleges and universities in thirteen states plus Hungary, Germany, and Mexico. Records show that teaching and administrative positions in public schools, colleges, and universities have been held by this group in nineteen states and Hungary. Eight of these new faculty members hold Doctor's degrees while the majority of the rest are in various stages of completing the requirements of their degrees. Four New Trustees Appointed by Governor Scranton Four Columbia County men have been appointed as trustees for Bloomsburg State College by Governor William Scranton. The new members are Guy Bangs, Orangeville, R.D. No. 1, Millville area insurance representative; J. Howard Deily, Bloomsburg, retired officer of Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Company ; Edgar A. Fenstermacher, Berwick R.D. No. 2, Berwick newspaper editor : and William A. Lank, Bloomsburg R.D. No. 4, President of the Farmers National Bank. At the recent reorganization meeting of the Board, at which Vice President Harold L. Paul, Pottsville, presided, William Lank was elected President and J. Howard Deily Secretary-Treasurer. Other trustees present were : Judge Bernard J. Kelly, Philadelphia; Samuel M. Jacobs, Danville. and Leo S. Dennen, White Hall. Tribute was paid the memory of the ninth member of the board, the late Frank A. Thornton, Northumberland, as a resolution was passed. FACULTY MEMBERS ON SABBATICAL LEAVE DURING 1963 -1964 TERM Dr. Cecil C. Seronsy Dr. Cecil C. Seronsy, Professor of English and Chairman of the Department, who joined the faculty of the College in January, 1953, and was named Chairman of the English Department when it was organized three years ago, has been granted a sabbatical leave of absence by the Board of Trustees for the academic year 1963-64. In mid-August, Dr. and Mrs. Seronsy went abroad and are now visiting England and the continent including Italy and France, for a period of three months. When they return to the United States in December, they will motor to California for a five-month stay at which time Dr. Seronsy will spend two months in study at the Huntington Library, Pasadena, where he has been given a grant. He will also devote considerable time during the year to study and research in the process of preparing a book on Samuel Daniel, and plans to engage in future study in the works of William Shakespeare. In the most recent issue of the Shakespeare Quarterly, Dr. Seronsy has published an article on the "Taming of the Shrew". Among the organizations to which professor Seronsy belongs are the Modern Language Association of America, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Pennsylvania Bibliographical Society. While Dr. Seronsy is on leave, Dr. Louis Thompson, a new member of the faculty, will be Acting Chairman of the Department of English. Boyd F. Buckingham Boyd F. Buckingham, a member of the faculty of Bloomsburg State College since September, 1953, and Director of Public Relations since January, 1955, has been granted a sabbatical leave of absence for the 1963-1964 college term, according to Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of the College. Buckingham will begin a year of graduate study in late September at the Pennsylvania State University towards the completion of his Doctor's degree. A graduate of the Class of 1943, Bloomsburg State College, he earned the Bachelor of Science degree, and, in 1949, was awarded the Master of Science degree by Bucknell University. · Beginning February, 1943, he served 31 months of active duty with the United States Army Air Corps. After his discharg.e from the service he joined the faculty of Athens High School and in 1947 began a six year tenure as a teacher at the Sayre Area Joint High School before his appointment to Bloomsburg in 1953. 1963 BSC Football Schedule During the past ten years at Bloomsburg, he has served as Chairman of the Assembly and Evening Entertainment Committee and as coordinator of alumni activities in addition to sports writing and public relations responsibilities. Sept. 21-Lock Haven S. C. Away Sept, __ 28-Mansfield S. C. Away Oct. 5-Kings College Home Oct. 12-West Chester S. C. Homecoming Away Oct. 19-Millersville S. C. Oct. 24-Cheyney S. C. Home (N) Nov. 2-Kutztown S. C. Awayt Nov. 9-East Stroudsburg S. C. Home During his year's leave of absence, his responsibilities for public relations activities will be assumed by Mr. Bruce C. "Nick" Dietterick of Berwick, Pa., a g-raduate of the School of Journalism, Pennsylvania State University, 1947. -:- Community Gov't. Association Grants Scholarship to Hawaiian Honor Student HUSKIES AIM TOWARDS WINNING GRID SEASON Another milestone was reached at the Bloomsburg State College when Miss Leatrice K. Sunaoka of Haneoke, Hawaii, registei:ed September 10th as the first American student of foreign ancestry under the sponsorship of the College. According to Myles Anderson, Assistant to the Dean of Students, Miss Sunaoka is the recipient of an annual $1,400 scholarship sponsored by the Community Government Association 1963 BSC Coaching Staff, Left to right: Eli McLaughlin, Line Coach; Walter Blair, ~ith-~nlisted fund£ .from college ,organ,, ____ B.ea